On 26-27 October,
2009 in Rome in the conference hall of the counseling group of Mayor of Rome on the street delle Virgini 18, there took place the fourth International Conference of the cycle "Ukraine and the Vatican”. It was convened within a week of
Ukraine in
Rome. The conference was organized by the Department of Religious Studies of the H. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, by the Transcarpathian V. Stefanyk National University and the State Foundation for Basic Research at the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and Ukrainian Association for Religious studies (UAR) with the support of the department for international relations of the city council of Rome, the Embassy of Ukraine at the Holy See, Holy See Nunciature in Ukraine, Ivano-Frankivsk Diocese and UGCC Bishops in Rome.